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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 08:37:03 -0700
To: Toby Speight <[e-mail]>
From: Ron Daniel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [URN] UTF encodings - why UTF-8? (was: I18N does not
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Thus spoke Toby Speight (at least at 02:48 PM 11/14/96 +0000)

>Would somebody care to explain to me why this double encoding is
>preferable to, say, UTF-7,

We looked at UTF-7 awhile back. Our conclusion at that time was that
UTF-8 would be preferable since UTF-7 would make us add '+' to the list
of reserved characters and, depending on the context, would affect the
handling of the '-' character as well.

Ron Daniel Jr.                       email: [e-mail]
Advanced Computing Lab               voice: [phone]
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Los Alamos National Laboratory        http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel/
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